Renting a Summer Cottage
Dolly Meadows visits Suburb Land to rent a six room cottage for summer. A real estate agent guides her through several options in a new suburb, showcasing landscape flowers and a Queen Anne home with seven rooms. Dolly imagines living there with her brother and children, while the agent subtly admires her.
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Dolly Meadows
Suburb Land Company
Dolly
J. Lawrence Meadows
Bevonshire
Dorothy Perkins
John
Muriel
Mrs. Meadows
Miss Meadows
Allotment of Farming Land and Farm Efficiency
The article argues three families share a single farm, with two in town dependent on the farm's output. It stresses the farmer's central role in national prosperity, urges more farming knowledge, and notes railroads and bankers promoting agricultural education and expansion. It questions who benefits most from improved farming.
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W. C. Palmer
North Dakota
Food value of skim milk by John B Pickering
Discussion of skim milk quality and uses for different ages. Health considerations, storage effects, and preparation methods including cooking and churning into buttermilk. Notes on fat replacement in cooking and a penny lunch experiment in Boston schools.
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Boston
Retain Nitrogen in Manure For Poultry Bedding
Fresh poultry manure yields about twice the fertilizing value of cattle manure by nitrogen content but nitrogen is unstable and readily degrades. Methods to retain nitrogen include mixing with absorbing materials or acids such as gypsum, kainite, or phosphate to prevent losses, and using loam or peat as absorbents for short storage.
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Rodney M. West
Fern care tips for heated rooms by Helen G. West
Advice on growing ferns in hot water heated rooms. Recommends Whitman and Boston ferns, noting light, water, soil, and placement. Emphasizes moisture on stoves, leaf mold soil, and avoiding dark corners while keeping fronds graceful and well nourished.
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Helen G. West
Whitman
Boston
Notes on Hog Lot Feeding Practices for Pig Development
The text advises feeding a wide variety of foods and avoiding abrupt diet changes. It emphasizes starting before birth by nourishing the dam with bone producing foods during pregnancy to promote bone development and growth of vital organs, leading to more lean meat in the carcass.
Bathtubs for Hogs Proposed in Kansas Feed Lots
Kansas farmers are urged to replace muddy hog wallows with cement bathtubs in feed lots. Dr Schoenleder notes hogs enjoy bathing, benefits include faster growth and less feed. a cement basin with daily drained and fresh water is recommended with a dilute dip to curb germs.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Dr. Schoenleder
Horse killed by wild dogs near White Lake
In Sullivan county Monticello, a horse owned by John C Fulton of White Lake was torn to death by dogs in a pasture at midnight. The owner fired at the maddened animals until the dogs were driven off by nearby farmers using pitchforks and clubs. Hunters' lost hunting dogs are suspected to have become wild.
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Monticello
N. Y
John C. Fulton
White Lake
Sullivan County
Bass Captures Fisherman Near Ontelance River Rescue
Allentown Alderman Elmer J. Behmoyer was saved from drowning when a giant bass entangled his line and pulled him toward a deep pool. Fisherman Joseph Albright, age seventy, freed him and hauled in the large catch after Schmeyer, wading to battle the fish, cried for help.
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Allentown
Elmer J. Behmoyer
Ontelance River
Joseph Albright
Schmeyer
Albright
Tooth Fragments Removed From Woman's Lung
Toledo physicians used tiny electric lamps and flexible forceps through the trachea to extract a tooth fragment from Mrs G Cole of Van Wert. The operation, after February tooth extraction under anesthesia, likely saved her life as X rays confirmed a foreign body in the right lung.
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Toledo
G. Cole
van Wert
Cole
Davis, 62, Marries Son's Widow in Morristown
William Davis, 62, marries Anna Elizabeth Davis, 39, widow of his son. Both reside in Morristown, St Clairsville Ohio. Davis had been married twice before, with both wives deceased.
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St. Clairaville
Ohio
William Davis
Anna Elizabeth Davis
Morristown
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Dorothy Blackmore
Associated Literary Press
U. S
Solk
John B. Pickering
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